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Oct 19, 2023 · Medieval mapmakers supposedly inscribed the phrase “Here Be Dragons” on maps showing unknown regions of the world. Unfortunately, however, it appears that, apart from an inscription on a single, 16th-century globe, this claim is unfounded.
Aug 12, 2022 · Although the commonality of the phrase ‘here be dragons’ seems to speak to some frequency of historical use, only two surviving maps of the world include the inscription ‘here be dragons.’ The Hunt-Lenox Globe is the only documented example of the phrase “Here be dragons” (red arrow) on a map.
The T-O Psalter world map (c. 1250 AD) has dragons, as symbols of sin, in a lower "frame" below the world, balancing Jesus and angels on the top, but the dragons do not appear on the map proper.
- Sharon Kay Penman
- 1985
Dec 12, 2013 · Not a single old paper map presents those exact words—“Here be dragons”— in the margins or otherwise. Nor does any paper map include “Hic sunt dracones,” the words’ Latin equivalent.
- Robinson Meyer
Jul 13, 2017 · Old maps never actually warned “Here Be Dragons”—ironically, that itself is a myth repeated often enough to be taken for truth—but medieval cartographers did decorate maps with...
They produced the first known map of the world. This map, engraved on a clay tablet, shows Babylon at the center of the world. The Babylonians used cuneiform, an ancient writing system, on this map. The map describes mythical creatures that they believed existed in other parts of the world.
Nov 24, 2018 · Popular legend holds that the phrase “Here Be Dragons” (or “Hic sunt dracones”) was added to some of these ancient maps in regions deemed particularly dangerous.
